Liu's former residence is located in Xiwenxing Village, Tuwo Township, 25 kilometers southwest of Qinshui County. It is a provincial key cultural relics protection unit. The main protection objects are typical Ming and Qing buildings and ancient buildings, wood carvings, celebrity inscriptions, painting and calligraphy skills, murals, gold plaques given by the emperor, stone carvings, etc.
Liu's former residence was originally the residence of Liu Zongyuan, a famous writer, philosopher and essayist in the Tang Dynasty, in Xiezhou Town, Hedong (now Jiezhou Town, Yongji County, Yuncheng City), and was called Yongzhou Sima. At that time, Liu Zongyuan participated in the political reform movement of the Wang school and was persecuted and relegated. Their relatives fled in order to avoid the extinction of Jiuzu, which is a big branch. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, ancestors migrated from Hedong. Liu's former residence was built in the late Tang Dynasty and expanded in later dynasties. Sheng Xing was famous in Ming and Qing Dynasties, which lasted more than 600 years and lasted for more than two centuries. According to Liu's genealogy, the family has a thousand hectares of land, Wan Li Road, and Beijing belongs to my government. Don't stay under different surnames. Descendants have been passed down for twenty-six generations, and relatives are widely distributed. It can be seen that their influence is broad and far-reaching. 1942, under the leadership of the anti-Japanese county government in southern Qin, the hereditary Liu Fu in Xiwenxing Village was transformed into a folk house, so it was called Liu's folk house.
Liu's former residence is located on a north-south mountain ridge in the east of Xiwenxing Village, facing south according to the mountain, and built by mountains and rivers, covering an area of more than 30 mu. Ancestor Food City is a fertile land with hundreds of slaves in Zhongtiao Road. It relies on the rise of Beishan to spread its wings. Located in Houwan, Erlong plays with pearls, with three famous Dongshan stations on the left and Jiuqiu on the right. The wall is close to the emperor's house and close to the caves and water around the government. Surrounded by green mountains and green fields, it is a typical ancient building of Ming and Qing dynasties manor with dense trees and fragrant flowers. Crouching tiger, hidden dragon, rich and powerful people are swallowing mountains and rivers. Due to many reasons such as history, geography, transportation, nature, etc., it has not caused great damage after many generations, and there are still six complete palaces since the Ming Dynasty. Each courtyard is a quadrangle-style building with four buildings and eight small buildings. Neifu District is completely closed, leaving only the gate building in the southwest corner and the brick archway in the northeast corner. There is a spherical ring road leading to the mansion in the mansion area. The building is semi-closed and the west is open.
The residence is adjacent to the West Star River in the east and the valley in the south. Due to the low terrain, there are tall protective walls at the north and south ends of the east, and brick kiln buildings are under the walls, facing the outside of the village. Outside the kiln door is a corridor, about three meters deep and two meters wide. The upper part is a brick house, facing west, with wooden columns, flower fences, carved pavilions and auspicious things. The gentle slope in the middle faces east, which is the exit passage of the village. The south of the manor is close to the valley, and the west and north are high stone walls and high brick walls. Liu's former residence was built on the platform between the southeast high wall and the northwest high wall. Liu's residence is divided into three parts. The eastern end is the foreign service area, including Liu's shrine, shrine, Confucian temple, paper and silk building, shrine, shrine, wooden house, left and right pavilions, etc. The northern end of the village is Neifu District, including Huanjie, Small Stage, Sima, Zhongxian, Wude, Chengde, Yingxiu Building, Tunnel, Jingting, Heting, Back Garden and Fumen Building. The middle area is the junction of the inner and outer houses, which is mainly an inner street composed of Wenchang Pavilion, school yard, outer gatehouse and two tall and spectacular stone arches.
There are barbed wire, alarm bells, tunnels, firewalls and other protective facilities in the inner government, which still exist today. The outer house is guarded by high-walled buildings and pavilions. Tian Chong, Emperor Chengde, Emperor Wude, Emperor Sima, Emperor Zhongxian, Heze in Hedong, Wu Jie in Qingyun, and Doctor Zhongxian were invited to the plaque of the Eight Mansions in Neifu, which is full of ancient marks and still exists today. In addition, Laofen 'gou, one kilometer north of Xiwenxing Village, is a large tomb of Liu Ancestor. Today, the Liu people are all over the nine townships and eighteen villages, and they are even more prosperous.
Liu's former residence has a high level of construction technology in terms of building scale, art, process quality and construction technology, with exquisite layout and solid brick-wood structure. From the decorative layout of doors, windows, pavilions, eaves, arches, cornices, reliefs, door plaques, couplets, paintings, woodcuts, stone carvings, calligraphy, etc., its ornamental and research value is better than that of Qiao's courtyard, and the number of preserved cultural relics is rare in our province. According to textual research, there are two tablets 1 inscribed by Zhu, a philosopher in Song Dynasty, two tablets inscribed by Wang Yangming, a writer in Ming Dynasty, four tablets inscribed by Fang, a calligrapher in Qujiang in Ming Dynasty, two tablets 1 inscribed by Wang Guoguang, assistant minister of the Ming Dynasty, and two tablets/inscribed by Tian, a great calligrapher in Ninghai and Zheng Guanluo. In addition, there are more than 40 unsigned calligraphy plaques, as well as many stones, woodcut couplets, murals, royal plaques, and Liu's genealogy and other cultural relics. In particular, the calligraphy and ink of Zhu, Zhu and Zhu are rare in northern China, which is of great research value. In addition, there are many family instructions, ancestor worship, notes, imperial tablets and epitaphs scattered in the courtyard. From the artistic structure of these artifacts, we can know the importance of the research value of Liu's folk houses, and it is also a place to explore, develop, utilize and visit precious historical materials such as human history, ancient architecture history, culture, art, calligraphy and archaeology in northern China.